An Ethic of Innocence
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-1-4384-7597-4 (ISBN)
An Ethic of Innocence examines representations of women in American and British fin-de-siècle and modern literature who seem "not to know" things. These naïve fools, Pollyannaish dupes, obedient traditionalists, or regressive anti-feminists have been dismissed by critics as conservative, backward, and out of sync with, even threatening to, modern feminist goals. Grounded in the late nineteenth century's changing political and generic representations of women, this book provides a novel interpretative framework for reconsidering the epistemic claims of these women. Kristen L. Renzi analyzes characters from works by Henry James, Frank Norris, Ann Petry, Rebecca West, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, and others, to argue that these feminine figures who choose not to know actually represent and model crucial pragmatic strategies by which modern and contemporary subjects navigate, survive, and even oppose gender oppression.
Kristen L. Renzi is Associate Professor of English at Xavier University.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Problem of Modern Female Innocence
Part I. Negotiated Living
1. A Pragmatist’s Dilemma: The Collusion between Myth and Reality in the Tale of the Hull House Devil Baby
2. Coming of Age via Critical Complaint: Reading Women’s Choices Not to Know in Realist Bildungsroman
3. A Failure of Sympathy or of Narrative? Naturalism’s Jaded Women and the Narrative Cycle of Domestic Violence
4. The Legacy of Naturalism, a Cycle of Leaving: Reading Agency in the Passive, Empty Woman
Part II. Pragmatic Fantasies
5. Are Women People? Discourses of (Non)Personhood in Suffrage Poetry and Protest
6. Making Women, Making Humans: Fantasies and Melancholic Mourning in Modern Sex Changes and Sex Losses
7. Allowing Innocence? Belief, Knowledge, and the Modern Community
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.09.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 227 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4384-7597-7 / 1438475977 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4384-7597-4 / 9781438475974 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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